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Facility fees support the clinical staff, infrastructure, and services needed to provide care in community-based outpatient settings — keeping clinics open and accessible, supporting high-quality care, and enabling patients to receive care close to home and avoid a hospital emergency department (ED).
MYTH: Eliminating facility fees will result in lower health care costs for patients. FACT: Eliminating facility fees could actually increase costs by forcing patients to receive care in higher-cost settings. Without facility fees, telehealth services and community clinics may close, leaving patients with fewer options and increased reliance on hospital emergency departments. Keeping...
Medicare and Medi-Cal underfunding have put the health care system on the precipice.
SACRAMENTO (June 25, 2026) — Following an agreement among the California Hospital Association (CHA), the California Federation of Labor Unions, AFL-CIO, and SEIU-UHW, the following two initiatives have been withdrawn from the November ballot: The Health Care Transparency, Accountability & Union Member Right to Vote Act The Health Care Executive Compensation Act of 2026 “Today marks an important step in strengthening the health care system to ensure […]
SB 691 would require law enforcement agency policy to limit body camera recording of any medical or psychological treatment performed by emergency service personnel that could embarrass or humiliate the patient. Emergency service personnel is limited to state or local fire agency employees, such as firefighters and paramedics.
What’s happening: Last week, the state Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Commission met and approved regulations focused on Assembly Bill 40 (2023) and Chapter 6 Specialty Care Designation and discuss the statewide ambulance patient offload time (APOT) report.
What’s happening: Hospitals are required to complete the new occupational mix survey for the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2028 wage index and submit it to their Medicare Administrative Contractor by June 30.
What’s happening: CHA DataSuite has issued hospital-specific analyses of the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program and the Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2027.
As California’s rural hospitals work to secure funding via the federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), a new tool is available to help them find partners to prepare their grant proposals.
What's happening: Organizations representing nearly 150 hospitals wrote or commented at this week’s Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) board meeting asking the board to reject OHCA’s proposed penalties, which could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars for even a single-year violation of the spending targets. Hospitals shared the disastrous consequences such exorbitant...
